Current openings at Philo

About Philo Philo is building the future of television. Our product lets you watch your favorite shows on all the devices you care about, with seamless playback, insightful discovery, and effortless sharing. In short, we’re building the TV experience that we’ve always wanted for ourselves. We’re a company that puts people first — both our subscribers and our team. At Philo, our philosophy is to empower our colleagues to do their best work while supporting each other in pursuing shared goals. We value pragmatism, pride in our work, and passion. We believe in having transparency and openness across all parts of the company. We are committed to diversity and inclusion as we grow the Philo team and shape the future of TV. We believe that a diverse set of voices and perspectives on our team enables us to innovate faster and create the best experience for our subscribers. Philo is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Cambridge, MA. Our leadership team includes a cofounder of Facebook as well as alums of Meraki and HBO. Philo is backed by NEA and industry partners including Discovery, Viacom, AMC, and A&E. About the Product team The Product Team is responsible for designing, building, testing, and quite literally reinventing television—one of the most engaging products ever created—across web, mobile, and TV platforms. Just as television is about more than simply watching an episode of your favorite show, so too does our work extend well beyond the play button. We take into account TV schedules, movie and show metadata, real-time ad auctions, live and on-demand feeds, recordings, cross-device interoperability, and individualized viewing habits, preferences, restrictions, and notifications… massaging it all into a comprehensive and seamless streaming experience while cooking up next generation multi-screen and multi-user playback experiences. At Philo, every member of the team is responsible for building and supporting a quality product experience. As such, product responsibilities are fairly decentralized. Cross-functional groups comprising feature leads from design, engineering, marketing, support, content, business development, data science, and other teams work together to tackle problems, collaborating on the motivation, scoping, design, implementation, release, support, and analysis of the corresponding solutions. The primary role of the Product team at Philo is to identify problems, vet opportunities, and equip other members of the Philo team in these cross-functional groups to be successful in pursuing solutions. The Role Philo is seeking an experienced Product Manager to drive all technical aspects of the Advertising Experience in the Philo service. Philo is leading the CTV ad industry by focusing 100% on programmatic advertising and resellers, foregoing the traditional direct sales models. At Philo you will help to shape the future of television advertising as you build the next generation of our ad business. Leveraging a keen understanding of the programmatic CTV ad ecosystem and working closely with our ad operations team, data scientists, software engineers and external partners, you will help to ensure that we are maximizing our ad revenue on a per-user basis (i.e. fill rates and CPMs) while balancing the overall ad experience for our users, ensuring that the ads our users see are high quality, relevant, and timely. Responsibilities Collaborate with our Ad Operations and business teams, work with our partners to gather requirements, determine the optimal services and partner integrations needed to optimize Philo’s transactions throughout the programmatic ad ecosystem, then help the team go build the services to make that vision a reality. Work with Philo software engineers to help design, implement, deploy, and monitor the next generation of Philo’s SSAI service. Collaborate with internal stakeholders across engineering, ad operations, and data science teams to ensure we are measuring and optimizing every aspect of our ad delivery process (and our users’ viewing experience). Direct the collection and analysis of relevant data to investigate issues, form hypotheses, conduct experiments, and make informed decisions among a very large set of unknowns and trade-offs. Work with Philo software engineers to drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, accuracy, and security of Philo’s ad services. Help to design and drive the implementation of identity solutions for ad targeting and measurement. Interface with external standards bodies (IAB, MRC, etc) to implement new certifications, maintain compliance with new standard adoption, etc. Drive iterative, prototype-driven product experimentation with the Ad Experience team. Balance objectives, metrics, and resources in prioritization decisions. Continually leverage research, data, and past experience to identify areas of product improvement. Serve as a feature owner for multiple projects—past, present, and future—including answering/routing questions about the project as well as identifying and mobilizing cross-team resources to scope, design, build, ship, support, and analyze the project or feature. Consult with domain experts to take an idea from infancy (the “what” and the “why”) to a decently-scoped implementation plan (the “how”), along with shepherding the project through implementation, documenting and socializing the “last mile” of product decisions that happen along the way. Schedule, run, and summarize meetings about current and future projects. Qualifications 6+ years of product management experience with a focus on digital advertising in the connected TV space. 6+ years of experience designing, building, analyzing, and iterating upon product experiences. 6+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams (identifying stakeholders, organizing inputs, mobilizing contributors, running meetings, documenting outcomes and deliverables, and socializing changes). 6+ years of experience demonstrating strong communication with technical and business stakeholders to understand product, technical, business, and logistical tradeoffs between different approaches to solving problems. Experience building or integrating ad servers, demand-side platforms or supply-side platforms with personalized ad targeting capabilities. Familiarity with programmatic advertising using platforms like Publica, Freewheel, Google Ad Exchange or Amazon APS. Familiarity with industry standards such as VAST, VMAP, OpenRTB and header bidding. Familiarity with SSAI using MPEG-DASH or HLS media streaming technologies. Knowledge of ad ecosystem trends and changes that will impact how Philo manages our overall ad stack for years to come. Experience working with large amounts of data and making data-based decisions to prioritize projects, including familiarity with relational and non-relational databases and modern data warehousing and querying. Expertise with product documentation, managing timelines/resources, and/or an operations role. Some demonstrated expertise with product and business goals, metrics, and analytics Strong written and oral communication skills. Strong organizational skills. Startup experience on a small team (<25 employees) is a big plus. Projected Start Date: ASAPStatus: Full-timeLocation: San Francisco, CACompensation: Includes annual salary between $170K-$250K depending on experience and location, company stock options, and health benefits We value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. Philo is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that everyone does their best work when they are supported by each other and the company, and we offer a generous set of benefits to make sure the Philo team is happy and healthy. Here is a sampling of the benefits we offer our team: Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay) Flexible working hours Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation) $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter) $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco) Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps Dog-friendly office And much more! For California Residents: Philo’s CCPA Notice at Collection – Employees, Applicants, Owners, Directors, Officers and Contractors Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Philo: a streaming service for TV and movie lovers At Philo, we’re a group of technology and product people who set out to build the future of television, marrying the best in modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented — in short, we’re building the TV experience that we’ve always wanted for ourselves. In practice this means leveraging cloud delivery, modern tech stacks, machine learning, and hand-crafted native app experiences on all of our platforms. We aim to deliver a rock solid experience on the streaming basics, while cooking up next generation multi-screen and multi-user playback experiences. Data Science at Philo Data underpins everything we do at Philo: making informed business decisions; analyzing and improving the quality of our streaming experience; running product experiments to optimize our signup flows and improve user journeys; and making it effortless for our users to find the perfect thing to watch. Philo serves over a billion streams to its users every year, generating a wealth of data that we leverage at all levels of the organization. Philo’s data pipeline processes nearly 8 trillion events per year into our petabyte scale data lake, where we run over 30k ETL and BI queries every day to bring data-driven insights to our team. On the Data Science team, we’re looking for people who excel at deep statistical and data modeling, experimentation, and identifying actionable insights on a variety of interesting engagement, content discoverability, acquisition, and retention-related problems across our streaming service. You’ll be working closely with other data scientists, analysts, and engineers to build and deploy solutions directly for our service. In addition, you’ll work with stakeholders in other departments to understand our business needs and deliver business-focused data insights to help the entire team thrive. We are passionate about problem-solving and providing data-informed insights through rigorous statistical methods, using both cutting-edge techniques and proven practices in close collaboration with every department. To complete our work we build on modern open-source tools including dbt, Cursor, GrowthBook, Robyn, Superset, and PyTorch, as well as SaaS tools such as Segment, Redshift, SageMaker, AWS Glue, Mode, Avo, and BigEye. Some of the recent projects our Data Science team members have worked on include: Building multi-touch attribution models to optimize customer lifetime value and calculate RoAS (Return on Ad Spend) Modeling to determine which early product behaviors predict conversion and retention Running experiments to evaluate and improve our ML-based content recommendation/personalization system Building data models for analysis of lifecycle marketing communications impact Modeling to analyze the impact of Quality of Experience events (e.g. rebuffering) on customer engagement and other business metrics. Price sensitivity research and competitive market analyses. The Role Philo is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to join our team and help elevate our data science practice. This role will provide senior leadership, establish methodological rigor, and coach our data science team to deliver high-impact analytical solutions. You have strong opinions about what high-quality Data Science work looks like and are impact oriented. You can work across multiple business units and have a keen sense of how to connect Data Science outputs to organizational KPIs. Responsibilities: Set the roadmap and model best practices for data science work at Philo Lead complex analytical projects that drive significant business value collaborating with stakeholders in the C-Suite  Establish and evangelize methodological standards for data science work Coach and mentor data scientists to elevate the team’s technical capabilities Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to identify new opportunities Develop frameworks for measuring impact of data science initiatives Build a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement Represent the data science team in cross-functional leadership discussions Key Qualifications: 10+ years of professional experience in data science/analytics with demonstrated proficiency in Python, SQL, or R and statistical modeling 3+ years of experience leading data science teams and managing complex statistical projects Deep expertise in statistical methods and causal inference Strong experience in experimental design and A/B testing Deep experience in building a robust and scalable data model as the foundation for both analysis and advanced modeling Proven track record of delivering high-impact data science projects that scale Experience mentoring junior data scientists and raising team capabilities Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex findings into business insights through effective data visualization and dashboards Strong business acumen and ability to connect analytics to business outcomes Experience with modern data science tools and technologies, including Python, Cursor, dbt, GrowthBook, and BI dashboarding tools Ideal Qualifications: Experience in media/streaming industry with understanding of viewer engagement metrics and content performance analysis Knowledge of recommendation systems and personalization algorithms using PyTorch or similar frameworks Experience with productionizing machine learning models in cloud environments like AWS SageMaker Familiarity with data visualization best practices and experience creating executive-level dashboards Experience with marketing mix modeling, multi-touch attribution, and customer lifetime value optimization More about Philo At Philo, we’re a company that puts people first—both our subscribers and our team. Our philosophy is to empower our colleagues to do their best work while supporting each other in pursuing shared goals. We value pragmatism, pride in our work, and passion. Transparency and openness are fundamental to our company culture. We are committed to diversity and inclusion as we grow the Philo team and shape the future of TV. We believe that a diverse set of voices and perspectives on our team enables us to innovate faster and create the best experience for our subscribers. Philo offers access to top-rated networks, including AMC, BET, CMT, Comedy Central, Discovery, Food Network, Hallmark, HGTV, History, Investigation Discovery, Lifetime, MTV, Nickelodeon, OWN, VH1, WE tv, and more, along with groundbreaking originals and blockbuster movies included with AMC+. Our service also includes 80+ free channels and premium add-ons like STARZ and MGM+. Our extensive library boasts over 75,000 titles, and our unlimited DVR allows users to save their favorite shows and movies for up to a year, skipping ads for a seamless viewing experience. Stream on up to three devices simultaneously, whether on your phone, tablet, laptop, or TV using Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Samsung TV, Android TV, Vizio TV, or Chromecast. Philo is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York and Cambridge, MA. Our leadership team includes a co-founder of Facebook and alums from Meraki and HBO, backed by NEA and industry partners like Discovery, Viacom, AMC, and A&E. Join us at Philo and be part of a team that's shaping the future of TV! Status: Full-timeLocation: San Francisco, CA, Brooklyn, NY, Cambridge, MA, or remoteCompensation: Includes annual salary between $172K-$237K depending on experience and location, company stock options, and health benefits We value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. Philo is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that everyone does their best work when they are supported by each other and the company, and we offer a generous set of benefits to make sure the Philo team is happy and healthy. Here is a sampling of the benefits we offer our team: Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay) Flexible working hours Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation) $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter) $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco) Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps Dog-friendly office And much more! For California Residents: Philo’s CCPA Notice at Collection – Employees, Applicants, Owners, Directors, Officers and Contractors Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.